Advanced Creative Writing
PREREQUISITES: Intro to Creative Writing (or special permission)
LENGTH: 1 Trimester
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Advanced Creative Writing explores and expands on foundational concepts and skills taught in Intro to Creative Writing. This course challenges and improves student writing across a range of forms in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction and utilizes aspects of the writing process including generating ideas, writing and revising drafts, and editing. To support this work, students read and analyze professional excerpts from outstanding works of literature in order to investigate what can be accomplished on the page. Individuals will practice their literary craft independently with the support of an attentive group of peers and participate in candid, helpful critiques of their own work and that of their peers to hone advanced skills. Students will also continue to build community and appreciation for creating work through large group publishing/sharing which was established in the Intro to Creative Writing class. All writers will continue to develop their personal voice and further their practice writing like a reader and reading like a writer.
LENGTH: 1 Trimester
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Advanced Creative Writing explores and expands on foundational concepts and skills taught in Intro to Creative Writing. This course challenges and improves student writing across a range of forms in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction and utilizes aspects of the writing process including generating ideas, writing and revising drafts, and editing. To support this work, students read and analyze professional excerpts from outstanding works of literature in order to investigate what can be accomplished on the page. Individuals will practice their literary craft independently with the support of an attentive group of peers and participate in candid, helpful critiques of their own work and that of their peers to hone advanced skills. Students will also continue to build community and appreciation for creating work through large group publishing/sharing which was established in the Intro to Creative Writing class. All writers will continue to develop their personal voice and further their practice writing like a reader and reading like a writer.